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The Most Savage of Novels: The Call of the Wild Analysis: Two Devils or One in Him? How Buck's Civilized Softness died and his Savagery Began

The Most Savage of Novels: The Call of the Wild Analysis: Two Devils or One in Him? How Buck's Civilized Softness died and his Savagery Began

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Something that stands out in Jack London’s work is the balance of intelligence with savagery. One cannot even use the word ‘barbaric’ or ‘barbarian’ so much as those words seem almost to belong to the likes of Robert E. Howard and his Hyborian Age and other stories as

Ulysses
and I were discussing not long ago.

Just as the wondrous Texans have engraved into the…

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